The Emerald Prince

Chapter 140: Ripples

Twelve Chapters to go my darlings!
This is more epiloguey as I had a bunch of loose ends to tie up, so thought I'd do them all together before I move on.

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"He's asleep."

The guys looked up from the kitchen table as Izuku trudged out of Aizawa's rooms. He introduced Eri to Hisashi and they'd got on well. He'd put them to bed in Eri's room, and was just about ready to fall apart.

Aizawa eyed him critically, Izuku's voice was throaty and controlled, his eyes were dull and his fingers twitched. "How are you fairing?"
Izuku chuckled weakly, taking the empty seat between Shoto and Hitoshi and calmly lowering his forehead onto the table top, lacing his fingers over his head and taking a deep slow breath.
"My abuser of ten years/mother was kicked unconscious in front of me and murdered, I killed my father and now his nine year old self is sleeping beside my sister." he raised his head steadily, "how the fuck do you think I'm fairing?"

There was a pregnant pause before Hawks stood and stretched. "Anyone for chicken wings?"
Izuku laughed weakly.

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Hisashi was added to the junior class of UA with Kirita, Kouta and Eri. Fortunately Kirita never knew All for One's original identity, and it would remain that way, the eleven year old happily introducing the strange boy to computer games.
After much thought, Hisashi asked Izuku for a healing quirk and had received one, giving up his 'curse' in the process. Recovery Girl was happy to take him on as a student once he reached High School age.
Naturally, though Izuku was kind to the kid, he could not become an Aizawa, neither him or his father could deal with that. Surprising or otherwise, Recovery Girl volunteered again, adopting him and naming him Shuzenji Hisashi.

Izuku handed all his files on Toshinori Yagi over to Tsukauchi, who took great pleasure in setting his team on the multitude of leads the notes provided. Togata refused to train under All Might which was when a mysterious old man by the name of Gran Torino appeared out the woodwork and volunteered along with Nighteye to supplement his education.
All Might 'retired', after 'defeating' All for One. Though a public scandal was tempting, he really was the symbol of peace. The backlash from the publish finding out he wasn't god sent to redeem them, could have too many dangerous consequences. And besides him getting the public credit suited Izuku and his desires for anonymity just fine

All the villains and vigilantes continued on as if nothing had happened that day to the confusion of everyone 'on the side of light', excepting Izuku. All of them had owed him a debt directly or indirectly, and they'd paid it. No more needed to be said. They didn't even spread Hisashi's identity. Honour among thieves. Or mutual fear of the consequences.
Izuku didn't care either way.

Class 1A and 1B became much closer after the shared experience, training hard together though only 1A would be going to take the Provisional License exam that following week. Shouji's unfortunate experiences were hushed up, and he along with Uraraka, Kaminari and several other UA students were given bursaries over the next few days.

Unsurprisingly it turned out Shimura genuinely was a genius, as the following Tuesday he took his High school exams and passed with flying colours. He'd applied to colleges for the next academic year but until then...was doing a fair bit of hacking.

Takami was becoming wary, the Hero Commission was onto his relationship with Touya. However they also seemed to be aware of how close he was to the person that defeated All for One in thirty seconds. Thus he hadn't been beaten, even if they had ordered him to inform them about Izuku's movements he was frankly more scared of Aizawas than those paper pushers. He did nod along though. Izuku wanted the building law suit to be a wonderful surprise.

Toga had made a full recovery once her quirk had regained full upgraded capacity. She was busy falsifying job applications to a list of agencies Tenko might just have mentioned in passing. She'd also got a text from this cute brunette up for private knife throwing lessons. She hoped to upgrade from knifing to scissoring soon.
(Sorry. Couldn't resist, apologies to everyone under sixteen, please, in the name of Nezu, do not search up scissoring. Please.)

Having had his powers essentially revealed to the hero world if not the public, Izuku felt no qualms in healing Tensei. Tenya had kissed him in gratitude, as well as renouncing the name of Ingenium for his brother to take back. Tensei though hadn't stood, but gotten down on one knee in front of Fuyumi. Rei and Mitsuki were already agreeing to plan the wedding together with the brothers' parents. They'd taken Inko's true nature and actions toward Izuku with great difficulty, but they were strong women.

Touya had got work in a place that sold fried chicken. It was temporary while he worked out what the hell he was doing, but considering how much he'd saved now he didn't have to pay to feed his boyfriend...it was one of the best options financially.

Ojiro and Hagakure went on date attempt two on Monday. Lessons had been suspended for the week leading up to the exams for them to train freely. They went on a double date with Kirishima and Kaminari.
They had wanted do go with Asui and Tokoyami, but those two had ideas about what a date involved that made the couple fairly uncomfortable. Tokoyami and Asui were going to the seance unaccompanied.

Yamada had been looking forward to actually being able to take his boyfriend on a date. They went on Saturday to a cat cafe, then on from there to a park, and a club where they got pretty drunk and met up with Shirakumo and Kayama doing the same thing. It was a great night, though none of them remembered much the next morning.

Unsurprisingly, Izuku was pretty out of it throughout that week. He was hard to find generally though he never left UA, and when anyone did find him, he was cheery but distant. He was being very quiet. And he could never be found at night, his friends were certain from his shadowed eyes the nightmares hadn't left him.

———

"Found you." Sang Shinsou playfully.
Izuku closed the book he was reading and rolled his eyes, "hardly an achievement when I'm in my own room."
The purple haired teen settled opposite him on the bed. "It is when you've been avoiding the class all week."
Izuku set down his book and scowled. "Well if you haven't realised I have some fresh trauma to process! Though mostly I'm reading up on Japanese Law. Meeting with the government in two days after all."
"You think you'll need it?" Asked Shinsou curiously.
The greenette hummed, "you can never be too prepared."

"You gonna come down to the common room? It's movie night?"
Izuku shrugged, "what genre? I can't really handle violence or sexual assault scenes."
"Disney." Said Shinsou with a smile.
Izuku relaxed, "okay."

He joined Shinsou at the door and as they made their way toward the stairs Shinsou spoke again. "I thought it was All for One you needed to face, to talk to."
Izuku hummed so the purple haired teen continued. "It wasn't, was it?"
The greenette looked over to him guiltily as they reached the bottom of the stairs. "No..."
The taller teen smiled, "It's okay Izu. I don't mind. Shoto doesn't either."
"Really?"
"Yup. Come on, brilliant animation and cliché songs await!"
He took Izuku's hand and pulled him into the living room.